Read the Transcript INT2: When you go to Berlin what aspects are you looking at in architecture? IM: Mostly for the students? INT2: Yes IM: Housing. German housing has been a succession of contradictory ideas. In the Victorian equivalent or the late Georgian equivalent, they had a particular type of building and then, it was,… Continue Reading Isi Metzstein – Reflection On Life
Read the Transcript IM: Not very much. My mother was orthodox, quite religious, and we had big battles about that. She wanted me to do the right thing and by the time I was about 14, I must admit I had lost all interest in religion, or any belief in God. And we had quite… Continue Reading Isi Metzstein – Integration
Read the Transcript IM: I wasn’t. I stayed at home with my mother INT: Right and she found work in Scotland? IM: Oh yes INT: When she came over IM: Yes. For a long time she worked in Geneen’s as a cook INT: So within the Jewish community? IM: Oh she was more related to… Continue Reading Isi Metzstein – Settling In
Read the Transcript IM: Actually not really. It was at the one stage but I was quite young of course. If I’d been older it would be probably quite uncomfortable because they found it difficult to distinguish between Germans and Germans if you know what I mean? But some of them were German. I never… Continue Reading Isi Metzstein – Life During The War
Read the Transcript IM: The 28th of June 1939 INT: And you remember it very well? IM: No I don’t…I remember the arrival, I don’t remember the date. I just happened to have recently looked at the document which was stamped with the 28th of… Of course we arrived a day earlier in London but… Continue Reading Isi Metzstein – Immigration
Read the Transcript IM: Absolutely INT: Thanks IM: So, can we start with your arrival here in Scotland? Could you tell us please when and where you were born and did you have a different name at birth or was this always your name? IM: No. My name is Isi Israel Metzstein. People think Isi… Continue Reading Isi Metzstein – Life Before The War